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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Call for Papers: Special Issue of MELUS
Call for Papers Special Issue of MELUS Guest Editors: Kathryn Nicol and Jennifer Terry
Toni Morrison: New Directions
With the publication of her eighth novel, A Mercy (2008), Toni Morrison has signaled her continuing centrality to the work of imagining and re-imagining American lives, histories, and cultures. A Mercy’s engagement with America’s pasts and futures provides an opportune moment to engage anew with Morrison’s career, to historicize and revise critical paradigms, and to suggest new directions for study. This call for papers invites contributions to a special issue of MELUS dedicated to new work on Toni Morrison. The issue aims to explore fresh approaches to Morrison’s body of work, offer critical readings of the recent fiction, and suggest responses to her non-fiction writing and work in other genres. We welcome a wide spectrum of responses but topics of particular interest might include: • Explorations of the author’s recent work (i.e. post-Jazz publications) • Responses to Morrison’s prefaces and essays, particularly in light of the publication of What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (2008) • Critical accounts of work in other genres: writing for children, dramatic and operatic works • Comparative approaches • New theoretical approaches • Interdisciplinary and / or ‘non-literary’ approaches • Morrison as public intellectual and / or Morrison’s self-fashioning • Studies of the reception of Morrison and / or the responses of different readerships Completed papers should be between 7000-9000 words, including notes and works cited, and in MLA format. Queries concerning possible submissions as well as book reviews are welcome. Electronic submission is required. Please send an email attachment to Kathryn Nicol (kate_edin@hotmail.com). Deadline for submission: 20 January, 2010.
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*CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
EARLY AMERICAN BORDERLANDS,*
*Flagler** **College**, **St. Augustine**, **FL**, **May 13-16, 2010***
Continuing in the tradition of the “First Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit” (Tucson, AZ, 2002) and “Beyond Colonial Studies” (Providence, RI, 2004), this event will bring together scholars of the early Americas working in various languages and disciplines in order to exchange questions, ideas, research and teaching methods, as well as to promote comparative perspectives and cross-disciplinary dialogue in the study of the early Americas. The thematic focus of this event will be on early American borderlands. Various concepts have been invoked to theorize cultural formations on early American borderlands—frontier, limit, border, contact zone, encounter, as well as syncretism, mestizaje/métissage, mulataje, transculturation, and inter-culturalism. We are inviting proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of early American borderlands throughout the Western hemisphere as spaces for the many forms of encounters that took place between various Native American, African, and European peoples from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European conquest of the Atlantic through the formation of early American nation states in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Send proposals for panels and/or 20-minute papers (including CVs), by *June 1, 2009* to Ralph Bauer at bauerr@umd.edu>. Accepted panels will be posted on the conference website for submission of additional paper proposals until *August 1, 2009*.
The event will be hosted by Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, and is co-sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists (SEA).
Program Chairs: Santa Arias (U Kansas) and Ralph Bauer (U Maryland).
Program Committee: David Boruchoff (McGill), Thomas Hallock (U South Florida), Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (U Pennsylvania), Dennis Moore (Florida SU), Luis Fernando Restrepo (U Arkansas), Gordon Sayre (U Oregon), Teresa Toulouse (U Colorado), Lisa Voigt (OSU), Ed White (U Florida).
Local Arrangements: John Diviney, Jr. (Flagler College), María José Maguire (Flagler College).
Ralph Bauer
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of Maryland,
4103 Susquehanna Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-9647
E-Mail: bauerr@umd.edu http://www.mith2.umd.edu/fellows/bauer/home.html
Transforming Visions in African American Literature and Rhetoric
51st Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association
November 12-15, 2009, St. Louis Union Station Marriott, St. Louis, Missouri This is an open call for presentations at the Permanent Session on African American Literature. We invite papers that respond broadly to the conference theme of “migration.” Projects may treat literary, rhetorical, theoretical, and/or pedagogical concerns raised by the work of African American authors from any period. Papers that pursue transnational analytics or concerns are encouraged. Projects that intersect with feminist, queer, disability, and religious/spiritual inquiries are especially welcome. Proposals due by April 20 to T J Geiger at geiger.tj@gmail.com.
The Philip Roth Society will sponsor a panel or two at this year’s ALA Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium, Sept. 9-12, 2009, in Salt Lake City, UT. The topic is open, and papers concerning any aspect of Roth’s work are welcome. We would also welcome any proposals for ready-made panels concerning Roth, his fiction, and any cultural issues surrounding his texts. Abstracts for paper and panel proposals should be 250-350 words, and should be sent to rothsociety@gmail.com.
For more information about the ALA Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium, please visit http://www.jahlit.org/.
Deadline for submissions to Roth Society panels at this conference is Friday, May 15th.
EARLY AMERICAN BORDERLANDS,*
*Flagler** **College**, **St. Augustine**, **FL**, **May 13-16, 2010***
Continuing in the tradition of the “First Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit” (Tucson, AZ, 2002) and “Beyond Colonial Studies” (Providence, RI, 2004), this event will bring together scholars of the early Americas working in various languages and disciplines in order to exchange questions, ideas, research and teaching methods, as well as to promote comparative perspectives and cross-disciplinary dialogue in the study of the early Americas. The thematic focus of this event will be on early American borderlands. Various concepts have been invoked to theorize cultural formations on early American borderlands—frontier, limit, border, contact zone, encounter, as well as syncretism, mestizaje/métissage, mulataje, transculturation, and inter-culturalism. We are inviting proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of early American borderlands throughout the Western hemisphere as spaces for the many forms of encounters that took place between various Native American, African, and European peoples from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European conquest of the Atlantic through the formation of early American nation states in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Send proposals for panels and/or 20-minute papers (including CVs), by *June 1, 2009* to Ralph Bauer at bauerr@umd.edu. Accepted panels will be posted on the conference website for submission of additional paper proposals until *August 1, 2009*.
The event will be hosted by Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, and is co-sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists (SEA).
Program Chairs: Santa Arias (U Kansas) and Ralph Bauer (U Maryland).
Program Committee: David Boruchoff (McGill), Thomas Hallock (U South Florida), Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel (U Pennsylvania), Dennis Moore (Florida SU), Luis Fernando Restrepo (U Arkansas), Gordon Sayre (U Oregon), Teresa Toulouse (U Colorado), Lisa Voigt (OSU), Ed White (U Florida).
Local Arrangements: John Diviney, Jr. (Flagler College), María José Maguire (Flagler College).
CFP – SPECIAL ISSUE OF SHOFAR DEVOTED TO JEWISH COMICSThe scholarship surrounding comics and “graphic novels” has proliferated over the past several years, as has studies focusing on particular comics themes or visual texts created by certain ethnic communities. Indeed, over the past three years alone there have been at least six critical studies investigating the links between comics and Jewishness. Given this emergent field of inquiry, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies will devote a special issue to Jewish comics (slotted for Summer 2010). The scope of this volume will take in the theoretical, literary, and historical contexts of graphic narrative and its links to Jewish identity and discourse. Possible topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:
• The ways in which comics have articulated the American Jewish experience
• Comics and the Holocaust, as expressed in such narratives as Maus, Auschwitz, I Was a Child of the Holocaust, We Are on Our Own, Mendel’s Daughter: A Memoir, and Yossel: April 19, 1943
• The contributions of Jews in the history of comic strips and comic books
• Images of Israel in the works of Joe Sacco, Rutu Modan, Ari Folman, Miriam Libicki, and the Dimona Comix Group
• Jewish identity through superheroes and villains, from Superman to The Spirit to Shaloman
• The form of the contemporary “graphic novel” by Jewish writers/artists such as Kim Deitch, Joann Sfar, Miss Lasko-Gross, Ben Katchor, and Aline Kominisky-Crumb
• Graphic adaptations of Jewish texts and legends
• Immigration and ethnic urban landscapes in the works of comics artists such as Will Eisner and Ben Katchor
• Comics, the Diaspora, and Jewish internationalism
• Jewish identity and world conflict, from the world wars to 9/11
• Jewish autobiographic comics (e.g., Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor and Will Eisner’s autobiographic fiction) as well as graphic biographies of such figures as Franz Kafka, Emma Goldman, Houdini, and Anne Frank
• Representations of the Jewish gangster in comics
• The uses of the golem and its relation to the superhero
All essay submissions should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, including notes. Contributors should format submissions based on the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, and use footnotes. Authors will be responsible for securing copyright permission for all images used. Address all inquiries, and submit all completed manuscripts, to the guest editor, Derek Parker Royal at Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu. Please include the words “Jewish Comics” in the subject heading.
Deadline for final manuscript submission is October 2, 2009.
Shofar is published for the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, the Western Jewish Studies Association, and the Jewish Studies Program of Purdue University by the Purdue University Press. For more information on the journal, please visit http://www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/shofar/.
7th Biennial MESEA Conference: The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
16–20 June 2010 University of Pécs, Hungary
Call for Papers Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations
Travel, movement and mobility are essential in human life: they shape individualities, histories and the stories people tell. In particular, labor, commerce, exile, tourism, transnational and transcontinental migrations have led to the socio-political and cultural production of dominant images of subjectivities and nationhoods. People’s identification with “imagined communities” and their experience with “encountered ones” has determined ethnicity’s and diaspora’s infinitely variable socio-political and cultural content. However, neither panethnicity nor transmigrant/postcolonial hybridity can resolve the crisis of a liberal commodified polity. Ideologies of difference and subjectivity need to be critically regrounded in the realities of global capitalism, political economy and the changing structures of institutional and disciplinary power. This conference, then, aims to focus on the ways that travel and trade contribute to the definition and redefinition of ethnic subjectivities in the realms of culture, politics, history, and sociology, economics and law, language, literature and the arts in Europe and the Americas. The following list of topics is meant to be suggestive rather than restrictive:
• Imperial Routes: Mapping a pan-European political sensibility as opposed to a racialist logic of civilization, sovereignty and self-government • Travel, location, and race/ethnicity • Kaleidoscopic ethnicity: Trade, migration and the formation of community identities • Ethnicity and the politics of world trade • Colonization and ethnicity • Diasporic cultural forms and transcultural networks • Diasporic and nativist identity formation – tension or co-existence? • Cultural and social “rise” as conducive to cultural/social invisibility • Cosmopolitan diasporas • Cosmopolitanism in creative tension with the nation-state and assimilationist ideologies • Deterritorialization vs. reterritorialization: De/racination in diaspora and the politics of origin • Postethnicity – global travel and ethnic (re)contextualizations • Diaspora and trans-ethnic solidarities, such as against racism, class, gender, social movements • Feminist politics of location • Gendering diasporas within diaspora communities and across trans-ethnic networks • Language, religion, and the formation of local communities • Immigration, intermarriage, and community solidarity • The politics and poetics of population integration • Discourses of displacement – routes vs roots • Exile and postmodern migrants • Travel, tourism and cultural politics • Travel writing and ethnography • Sites / Sights: Exhibitionism and commodification
Proposals can be submitted to our website between August 15 and November 15, 2009.
Inter/transnational and inter/transdisciplinary proposals as well as complete panels will be given preference.
Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards.
For more information please see: http://www.mesea.org
SWIMMING IN THE AMERICAN: A MEMOIR AND SELECTED WRITINGS by Hiroshi Kashiwagi; Edited by Tamiko Nimura (Asian American Curriculum Project, $15 paper)
"Japanese American literature just got a little deeper with the publication of Hiroshi Kashiwagi's Swimming in the American ... Kashiwagi has written a memoir of a No-No Boy ... I hope that Japanese America deserves the good writing, the quality of verifiable fact, and the daring of AACP's publishing venture."
- Frank Chin, author & playwright, Born in the USA, Chicken Coop Chinaman, and Donald Duk
"Hiroshi Kashiwagi's Swimming in the American is quite a bit more than its modest subtitle would suggest... The main narrative tells of [...] the shameful internment of Japanese Americans; of the development and distillation of a Japanese-American sensibility in the man and the writer; and ultimately the journey of the human soul.... [But it is] as much about Mr. Kashiwagi's lifelong passion: reading, writing, and acting. This is a long and diverse life, well lived, well reflected upon, and above all, well and enthrallingly told."
--John Philbrook, Librarian, San Francisco Public Library
For more information and to order the book, please visit http://www.asianamericanbooks.com/books/3285.htm
Book Announcement
SHOE BOX PLAYS
Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Edited by Tamiko Nimura
(Asian American Curriculum Project, $15 paper)
The book gathers together plays that chronicle the experiences of Japanese Americans from the hardships of the Depression of the 1930s, through the bitterness and dislocation of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, through the rise of Asian American consciousness and pride in the late 1960s and 1970s to today. "Laughter and False Teeth" is perhaps the most famous of the plays presented since it was included in The Big AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature (1991), a staple book used in college Asian American classes across the country. Procuring false teeth in an internment camp becomes a tragicomic observation of the breakdown of morality and decency in such places where even the dentist has to be bribed to do substandard work. "Kisa Gotami" (The Parable of the Mustard Seed) has the distinction of being George Takei's first role as an actor, a decade before his pioneering work as Sulu on Star Trek. "The Betrayed" a play that was included in Hiroshi's earlier book published by AACP, Swimming in the American, is perhaps the most powerful work, presenting as it does the fundamental conflicts between those Japanese Americans that cooperated with the government to prove their loyalty as Americans during the years of internment and those that resisted because the government had violated their rights as Americans.
These are just a few of the plays in this book composed over the past 60 years and stored literally in a shoe box.
For more information and to order the book, please visit http://www.asianamericanbooks.com/books/3512.htm
Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature by Catherine Rottenberg
Dartmouth College Press University Press of New England $50.00 Cloth, 978-1-58465-682-1
A comparative analysis of modern African-American and Jewish-American narratives
In Performing Americanness, Catherine Rottenberg raises important questions about what it means to be American through a wholly original analysis of modern African-American and Jewish-American literature. The book illustrates how the novels of Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Anzia Yezierska, and Abraham Cahan help us to understand the specific ways that gender, class, race, and ethnicity have regulated the identity formation of African and Jewish Americans, as well as the ways these categories have helped produce and sustain social stratification in the United States more generally. Through the author's comparative lens, new light is shed on fundamental internal and external conflicts--especially of identity--that took place as both groups sought to move from margin to center by carving out a niche for themselves in mainstream American society.
"[Performing Americanness] is a rare, if not unprecedented, effort to compare narratives that trace the immigration of Jews to the United States with the 'assimilation' experience of African Americans . . . an erudite, carefully argued, and singular achievement."--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
"This ambitious and theoretically informed work promises to become an invaluable resource for scholars in ethnic studies, African-American studies in particular."--Donald Pease, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Dartmouth College
Currently a fellow at the University of Michigan's Frankel Institute, CATHERINE ROTTENBERG will be an assistant professor in the Foreign Languages and Linguistics and Communications Departments at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, beginning in 2008.
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A GENEALOGY OF LITERARY MULTICULTURALISM Christopher Douglas http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5309
As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated through an antiracist concept of culture championed by Boas: culture as plural, relative, and long-lived. Meanwhile, a very different antiracist model of culture learned from Robert Park's sociology allowed Richard Wright to imagine African American culture in terms of severed traditions, marginal consciousness, and generation gaps.
In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s, features minority writers such as Hurston and D'Arcy McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and his attempts to detach culture from race. The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced by currents in sociological thought. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism.
Ultimately, Douglas's “unified field theory” of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures-and then back again.
The preliminary schedule for the 2009 MELUS Conference in Spokane, Washington is now online at: www.melus.org
Rutgers University Press Announces a New Series: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)
Series Editors: Amritjit Singh, Ohio University, Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park, & C. Lok Chua, California State University, Fresno
This exciting new publishing endeavor aims to expand and deepen our sense of American literatures as multi-cultural and multi-lingual and will contribute to a broader understanding of “America” as a complex site for the creation of national, transnational, and global narratives. Series volumes focus on the recovery, consolidation, and re-evaluation of literary expression in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as shaped by the experience of race, ethnicity, national origin, region, class, gender, and language. The Series addresses all historical periods, and in doing so presents a unique opportunity to revolutionize the entire field of American studies.
The MELA Series has two major aims. First, it seeks to make available neglected or lost texts by bringing into print previously unpublished or out-of-print works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and drama, written in or translated into English. Second, it encourages the compilation of multi-ethnic readers/anthologies organized around a single author, a historical period, a movement, an ethnic literature, or a theoretical or thematic paradigm. These anthologies may employ a variety of methods and viewpoints in reconstructing the literary cultures of the Americas—in conversation with one another and with the rest of the world.
Both the reprint volumes and anthologies are aimed at general audiences, even as they primarily address the need for a diverse curriculum that speaks to the widening range of experiences and histories of our students today. Each volume in the Series will include an introduction providing appropriate historical background and cultural context, along with notes and other editorial apparatus.
Available Titles
Chinatown Family, by Lin Yutang, edited by C. Lok Chua
Shadowed Dreams: Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance—Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Maureen Honey
Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins, edited by Ira Dworkin
A Long Way From Home, by Claude McKay, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett
Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writings, edited by Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby
Zora Neale Hurston: The Collected Plays, edited by Jean Lee Cole and Charles Mitchell
Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1924, edited by Tony Trigilio and Timothy Prchal
Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear, by Kathleen Tamagawa, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef
Forthcoming Titles
The Grand Gennaro, by Garibaldi M. Lapolla, edited by Steven Belluscio
Arab American Reader, edited by Pauline Kaldas, Lisa Majaj and Khaled Mattawa
Advance Praise for the Series
“This multi-ethnic literature series is academically important—and no one is more qualified to lead this effort than series editor Amrit Singh. The need for a diverse curriculum, especially one that is cognizant of past traditions as well as future trends, continues to grow.” –Cheryl Wall, Rutgers University
“This series sounds outstanding! It will be an important and prestigious venture—this puts Rutgers University Press at the cutting edge of a project that will be increasingly central to the academic profession.” –Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
Contact Information
For general information and guidelines, contact Leslie Mitchner, Associate Director and Editor in Chief, Rutgers University Press, (732) 445-7762 x601; lmitch@rci.rutgers.edu
For specific queries about manuscript submission, contact one of the series editors: Amritjit Singh: singha@ohio.edu, Carla L. Peterson: cpeterso@umd.edu or C. Lok Chua: chengc@csufresno.edu
Katherine Matheson Program Associate for Outreach and Communications Council for International Exchange of Scholars 3007 Tilden Street NW, Suite 5 - L Washington , DC 20008 (202) 686- 7866 kmatheson@cies.iie.org
From March to August 1, 2009, U.S. faculty and professionals are invited to apply for *Fulbright scholar grants at www.cies.org.
For monthly updates, write us at outreach@cies.iie.org for a complimentary subscription to The Fulbright Scholar News, an electronic newsletter.
*The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 286,000 participants from over 155 countries with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. For more information, visit http://fulbright.state.gov/.
Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals for 2010-2011 is open The Fulbright Scholar Program offers 60 grants in lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in American literature, including six Fulbright Distinguished Chairs. Even better, faculty and professionals in American literature also can apply for one of the 144 “All Discipline” awards open to all fields.
What does Fulbright offer in American literature? Here are a few of the awards for 2010-2011:
Sub-Saharan Africa: Award #0066 - Arts, Business Administration, Computer and Information Sciences, Education Humanities and Social Sciences in Ghana; Award# 0055 – American Literature and Civilization and Award #0056 – American Studies or Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Cote d’Ivoire; Award #0046 – Culture and Peace Studies in Botswana.
Middle East and North Africa: Opportunities for lecturing in all countries in the region including Tunisia , Algeria and Israel .
Northern and Eastern Europe: Multiple awards in Norway including Award #0039 – Roving Scholar in American Studies; Award #0229 – American Studies in Croatia; Award #0324 – Linguistics, Academic Writing, American Studies or Literature in Lithuania; Award #0356 – American Studies in Romania.
Western Hemisphere: Award #0506 – Social Sciences and Humanities in Argentina ; Award# 0563 – Social Sciences and Humanities in Venezuela .
The application deadline is August 1, 2009. U.S. citizenship is required. For a full, detailed listing of all the Fulbright programs and other eligibility requirements visit our website at www.cies.org, or send a request for materials to scholars@cies.iie.org.
Welcome to the Fall 2008 Issue. We have been very pleased with our blog format that has allowed users to post comments and make additions to the issue when needed. This provides a more dynamic publishing environment for the sharing of announcements and information among MELUS members. Users may also post time-sensitive items such as CFPs or job announcements. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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Please join us as we present this year's MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. John Lowe
December 29, 2008 Reception: 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m Award Presentation: 6:15 p.m. at Zingari Restaurant's LA DONATELLO 501 Post Street San Francisco CA 94102 415-885-8850
Open Bar to Include: Call and Brand Liquor, Domestic Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices. Crostini topped with Olive Tapanade, Fresh Tomato and Basil, Prosciutto over Melon. Chicken Skewers with Wasabi Glaze, Smoked Salmon on Cucumber wheel with crème' Freche, Baked Mushroom Caps with Caramelized Red Onions, Garlic & Mascarpone.
$15 per person
Space is limited so you must reserve your presence by December 15th. Please include a check for $15 per person, or send $15.00 through Paypal by going to the Announcements page on the MELUS website (www.melus.org) or through Paypal.com to melusmembership@yahoo.com (Note on the comment section that it's for the reception.) Reservations without payment will not be honored. Send checks to: Dr. Kim Long, MELUS Treasurer, 217 East King Street, Shippensburg PA 17257
The MELUS Election Committee seeks nominations for election to the Executive Committee (2009-2012). All MELUS members in good standing are eligible for nomination to any position. Candidates for office must be MELUS members and possess expertise appropriate to the officer’s duties. Graduate students are encouraged to run for Graduate Student Representative.
We are accepting self-nominations and recommendations of others. Those nominating themselves will submit their curriculum vitae and a brief description of their experiences related to their desired position as well as any vision they have for the office they would like to hold. Submissions must be sent to the Chair of the Election Committee, Fred Gardaphe via email attachment to:
Fred.Gardaphe@qc.cuny.edu or through regular mail at Dr. Fred Gardaphe, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd Street, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10036.
Those who have not been self-nominated will be contacted by the Election Committee to ensure that they are willing to run for office, and if they are willing to run will submit their CVs and statements of experience and vision.
The deadline for all nominations is December 15, 2008. The elections will take place as soon as a digital ballot has been created and sent out to the members in good standing via electronic mail soon after in December. Paper ballots will be available for those who do not use the Internet. The ballots will be sent in no later than December 31st. The Committee will count the ballots and report the complete results to the Executive Committee and the Membership by January 15th. The candidate with a simple majority will be declared the winner for each position. In case of a tie, the Election Committee will arrange another election between the tied candidates within a week after announcing the general election results. MELUS members will vote and submit their ballots to break this tie no later than February 15.
Those elected to office will be introduced and installed at the spring conference.
Constitution of and Responsibilities of the Executive Committee
The Executive Committee shall consist of a President, a Program Chair, a Secretary, a Treasurer, the Editor of the MELUS Journal, a Membership Chair, the Project Chair and the Graduate Student Representative. This Committee is responsible for the operation of the Association, subject to review by the entire membership at the annual meeting. All officers of the Executive Committee (with the exception of the Editor of the Journal) are elected for a term of three years. They are eligible for re-election once, with the exception of the Treasurer, who has no limitations on renewal of appointment. Should a vacancy occur, the position may be filled temporarily by an appointee of the Executive Committee. The Journal Editor receives five-year appointments from the Executive Committee, with no limitations on renewal of appointment.
President The President shall chair meetings of the Society (including those at the annual spring conference and the annual MLA convention) and coordinate all of the functions of the Society. He/she shall administer the Constitution and By-Laws throughout the year. With the elected members of the Executive Committee, he/she appoints all non-elected officers, reviews significant expenditures, and shall make arrangements for conferences, national and regional meetings, publications, etc. The President takes ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the Society's programs and activities.
Program Chairperson The Program Chair shall coordinate the annual program, including the national MELUS conference and sessions at other regional and national conferences. The Program Chairperson directs preparations for the annual national MELUS Conference in consultation with the Executive Committee and local organizers. Once the MELUS President has secured a contract with a university that specifies the responsibilities of the campus and the Society, the Program Chair or his/her designate serves as a resource person for the campus coordinator, who is expected to follow the guidelines outlined in the MELUS Conference Handbook. The Program Chair shall develop procedures for future projects and programs. .
Secretary The Secretary shall set the agenda and keep minutes of the Executive Committee and membership meetings and shall distribute copies to the Executive Committee before each meeting. The Editor of MELUS NewsNotes should receive a copy of the minutes in time to publish them in the first yearly-usually January--issue. In conjunction with the President, the Secretary will also notify the Executive Committee of the time and place of its annual meeting. The Secretary also serves as the liaison between the Executive Committee and the Editor of NewsNotes, the Webmaster/mistrix, the MELUS listserv moderator. This officer is involved with communicating internally and externally the activities and policies of the Society.
Treasurer The Treasurer shall establish and maintain a careful bookkeeping system in accordance with the requirements put forth by the non-profit corporation laws. The treasurer prepares biennial reports of all financial transactions, including checks received, and works closely with the Membership Chairperson to apply funds received by members to their accounts. He/She reports regularly to the Executive Committee about such matters as the percentage of dues which goes to the journal, regular payments to the journal, and regular financial statements received from the Managing Editor of the Journal, which the treasurer incorporates into his/her quarterly report and] will eventually present in an annual report at the business meeting. This officer also works with the Executive Committee on basic financial operations, such as designing a yearly budget, fulfilling contractual obligations, and receiving and keeping track of all MELUS funds, including membership and conference registration fees.
Project Chairperson The Project Chairperson serves as Executive Committee liaison to the various ongoing projects that the organization may undertake through ad hoc committees and subcommittees. This officer is responsible for executing special projects the Executive Committee may deem necessary to pursue for the benefit of the organization at large. The Project Chair must report to the Executive Committee on the status of said projects. At the beginning or his or her term, the Project Chair, along with the Executive Committee, will establish a work plan to cover the most pressing projects
Membership Chairperson The Membership Chair is charged with all responsibilities and duties related to the recruitment and retention of members. Primary among these duties is to keep the MELUS membership database up to date using information provided by the Editor of the Melus Journal and the Treasurer and to make that information available as deemed necessary by the Membership Chair and Executive Committee. The Membership Chair is also responsible for establishing and executing a plan for increasing membership.
Graduate Student Representative The Graduate Student Representative helps the Society address the specific needs and concerns of MELUS members who are currently graduate students and recruits new members and potential leaders for MELUS from among this population.
Questions about the election should be directed to the Election Committee Chair, Fred Gardaphe. Along with the chair, the Election Committee includes Derek Royal and Jose Torres, with JoAnne Gruvoli, webmistrix.
MELUS Executive Committee Meeting Annual Conference Blackwell Hotel, Ohio University Columbus, Ohio Saturday, March 29, 2008
Convened: 5:30 pm
Present: Martha Cutter, Fred Gardaphe (Interim President), Wenxin Li, Kim Long, JoAnne Ruvoli, Derek Royal, , Jose Torres-Padilla.
1. President’s Report: Gardaphe has nothing new to report.
2. Treasurer’s Report: The institution is doing well financially. Total assets as of 3/27/2008: $85, 706.18. See attached report for further details.
3. MELUS Journal
3.1 Submissions are up; the acceptance rate is at 10%.
3.2 Upcoming special issues: summer issue on Iranian American literature; one on Alien/Asian literature; a guest issue edited by Carol Henderson on African-American literature and the Construction of Body; another on Multiethnic Poetry.
3.2 The journal needs to hire a new Managing Editor
4. Membership: See attached report.
4.1 Slight decrease from last year: from 332 to 304.
4.2 36% of new members are graduate students.
4.3 Not as many memberships from Midwest region as typically expected when the conference is in that region.
4.4 Generally, these numbers are consistent with last few years.
5. Programs
5.1 The 2009 MELUS conference will convene in Spokane, Washington, on April 2-5, 2009. It will be hosted by Washington State University. The proposed theme is “Poetic Justice: Imagination, Empowerment and Identity in Multiethnic Literatures of the United States.”
5.2 MELUS will present 2 panels at the 2009 MLA. Li reports that there are not many proposals for these two panels.
5.3 There were plenty of submissions for the 2 ALA panels.
5.4 The panel at the 20th Century Literature conference in Louisville on February, 2008 were not successful. Given the problems with the conference, the EC decided to presently eliminate this conference from MELUS’ program schedule.
5.5 The EC voted to subsidize the Program Chair to enable him or her to moderate the ALA conference panels.
6. Graduate Student Representative Report
6.1 Discussion ensued concerning the Dissertation Award as proposed by Ruvoli. This Award would be rewarded annually to the best dissertation written by a MELUS member during the year. The EC considered some logistical problems of such an award. Ruvoli will investigate how other organizations run similar awards.
6.2 There were 12 applications for the President’s Award for Graduate Student Presenters.
6.3 The Graduate Student Resource links updated on the MELUS website.
6.4 Update sent to current graduate student members which included solicitation to get more involved. Feedback included appreciation for awards, registration fee waiver, and the online syllabus database. Feedback also included a proposal from Stephen Pearson, Ph.D. candidate at U. of Georgia, to motivate students and professors to work on Multiethnic US literature articles on Wikipedia.com He will serve as contact through his user talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk: Aristophanes68
7. MELUS Website
7.1 The complete list of past MELUS presidents has been posted on the website.
7.2 Ongoing updates for membership, conferences, journal and announcements.
7.3 Still gathering archival materials, such as conference programs, award winners.
7.4 Ruvoli proposes an update of the website’s design and asks for suggestions.
8. MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award:
8.1 The EC voted to award the 2008 award to John Lowe.
8.2 For the 2009 award, EC members will nominate and seek CV’s of potential recipients.
9. ACEE
9.1 In a 6 to 1 vote, the EC decided to discontinue funding to ACEE and recommended disbanding the special committee since the EC has not received any status or accounting of ACEE’s work for a lengthy period of time.
9.2 The EC still awaits the Survey Report on Issues Concerning Multiethnic Faculty and Teaching which ACEE began with MELUS funding.
9.3 The EC recommended that discussion of ACEE’s purpose, work and future should be continued in the business meeting scheduled for the 2008 MLA convention in San Francisco.
10. Election Guidelines
10.1 The EC reviewed the election guidelines approved on March 23, 2007.
10.2 In discussing the proposed guidelines, it was recommended that Section 2 of Article IV (Officers) of the MELUS Constitution, and Sections 3, 6, 7 and 11 of Article IV (Duties of MELUS Officers) of the Bylaws, should also be changed for clarity and accuracy and coherence with the new election guidelines.
10.3 A Section 12 , which describes the duties of the Project Chair, was added to Article IV of the Bylaws.
10.4 The revised election guidelines will expand the present version of Article III of the Bylaws.
10.5 The proposed revisions to Article IV of the Constitution and Articles III and IV of the Bylaws will be posted on the MELUS website for membership review.
10.6 After investigating options for conducting elections via the internet, the proposed revisions will be submitted officially for membership approval.
10.7 If approved, the EC will follow new guidelines for the upcoming elections.
Adjourned: 7:35 pm Respectfully submitted by Jose L. Torres-Padilla Secretary
MELUS Treasurer’s Report, March 2008 MELUS Board Meeting, MELUS Conference (Columbus, OH) March 29, 2008
Funds reported on last financial statement, December 2007 $78,288.97
Transactions since last statement
Deposits, Credits $10,449.03
Checks received 7,700.00 Paypal payments received 2,297.51 Dividends and interest income 451.52
Debits $3,031.82
6 MELUS reimbursement checks 1,200.00 MLA Reception 372.32 Grad student support for MELUS 1,400.00 Website hosting renewal 45.00 Banking supplies 14.51
Amounts in Current Accounts
Orrstown Bank 2,500.00 ING Direct 81,701.29
Paypal 1,504.89
Total assets 3/27/2008 $85,706.18
Respectfully submitted by Kim Martin Long
Membership Statistics
2006 Membership (by time of MELUS Conference): 285 – % of new members who are graduate students: 46% 2007 Membership (by time of MELUS Conference): 332 – % of new members who are graduate students: 45% 2008 Membership (by time of MELUS Conference): 304 – % of new members who are graduate students: 36%
2007 Membership
2007 Membership Up to March Conference 2007 Membership Since March Conference
Category Numbers % of Total Membership
New members 130 39 %
Renewals 149 45%
Lifetime 51 15%
Patrons 2 < 1%
Total members 332
Category Numbers % of Total Membership
New members 101 69%
Renewals 43 30%
Lifetime 2 1%
Institutional Patrons 0 0%
Total members 146 2007 MEMBERSHIP TOTAL: 478
2008 Membership, as of March 2008
Membership by Renewal Status Membership by Position
Submissions are invited for a special issue of MELUS on the poetries and poetics of multi-ethnic traditions. This issue will initiate and extend scholarly conversations about poetics, especially given the general tendency in theories of ethnic cultures and literary expressivity to neglect the role that varied verse forms and traditions play. Thus, we particularly encourage submissions that utilize complex formal analysis to increase the theoretical sophistication of the study of these poetic traditions. We look forward to comparative studies, discussions of specific ethnically and/or culturally derived verse forms and traditions, fresh interpretations of established poets and poetics practitioners, and attention to neglected writers. In addition, we invite limited submissions of original poetry that pertains to multi-ethnic subjects or poetics.
We seek submissions dealing with topics including but not limited to the following:
• Poetics across ethnic traditions • Literary forms within distinctive ethnic culture traditions (i.e. ghazal, bop) • Literary theory and practice associated with particular communities (i.e. Cave Canem, VONA, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Umbra) • Poetry and political movements • Poetics and place, regional as well as transnational (i.e. global south, diasporic) • The place of the sacred, including sacred verse forms • Poetics and performance (i.e. visual, oral, digital) • Individual poets in historical and political contexts • Poetics in conversation with other art forms • Poetry sub-cultures and new media poetries
The most desirable essays will be between 7,000 and 10,000 words, including notes and works cited. Queries concerning possible submissions as well as book reviews are welcome. Electronic submission is required. Please send an email attachment to the editors, Meta DuEwa Jones (metadj@mail.utexas.edu) and Keith D. Leonard (kdl@american.edu). Deadline for submission: January 3, 2009.
MELUS welcomes essays and interviews of interest to those concerned with the multi-ethnic scope of literature in the United States. As the publication of a society of writers, researchers, and teachers, the journal is open to all scholarly methods and theoretical approaches. MELUS seeks, above all, to advance ongoing and rigorous critical conversations about ethnic texts and their historical and theoretical contexts.
Whether theoretical or analytical, comparative within a single ethnic literature or cross-cultural, the most desirable essays will be between 7,000 and 10,000 words, including notes and works cited. MELUS welcomes articles on American literature not written in English, but translations should accompany foreign language titles and quotations in other languages. Contributors are urged to avoid sexist, racist, and other discriminatory language.
Only members of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States may publish articles in MELUS. Most articles are sent anonymously to two consultant readers with expertise in the article’s area. Articles recommended by these readers are then reviewed by the Editor, who will consult additional experts if necessary. Final decisions are made by the Editor.
Electronic submission is required. Please send an email attachment to the Editor, Professor Martha J. Cutter, at melus@uconn.edu. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript, except on a separate title or cover sheet. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such reference might lead to identification; any necessary reference to the author’s previous work, for example, can be in the third person. Inquiries may be directed to melus@uconn.edu. Essays under review at other journals will not be considered for publication in MELUS.
MELUS is pleased to welcome Claire E. Reynolds as the journal’s Managing Editor. She served as Assistant Editor of ATQ while completing her PhD at the University of Rhode Island. She is also the Book Review Editor (USA and Canada) for Purdue University’s CLCweb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research focuses on 19th- and early 20th-century American women’s literature. She has published on Ruth McEnery Stuart in CEA Critic.
Call for Proposals (due February 5)
We invite paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on theoretical, critical, or pedagogical approaches
to works produced since 1988. We are especially interested in proposals that address the work of
featured novelists Alice Randall and Mat Johnson. Proposals focusing on satire, transnationalism,
cosmopolitanism, or any of the topics listed below are also welcomed. Selected essays will once
again be edited for publication.
Aesthetic Frameworks or Models
Comedy
Music
Detective Fiction
Ethics
Hip-Hop
Literature and American Legal Discourse
LGBT Novels
Popular Fiction
[Re]constructions of Race and/or Gender
Revisioning Oral Traditions
Revisioning Signifying Practice
Sexuality
Speculative Fiction
Urban Experience Novels
Submit carefully written abstracts (300 words) via e-mail attachment to:
AfAmLit@outreach.psu.edu. Include complete identification—names,
institution name, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Deadline for submission
is February 5, 2009. During March 2008 you will receive e-mail notification
regarding abstract acceptance. Important note: Persons whose abstracts are
accepted should register for the conference by August 15, 2009.
Questions regarding proposals should be sent to:
Lovalerie King
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University
E-mail: luk13@psu.edu
Conference website address: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/AfAmNovel
Note that the accepted proposals will be shared with the participants by means
of the conference Web site before and during the conference.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONFERENCE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
“Evolutionary Momentum in African American Studies—
Legacy and Future Direction”
A Conference in Honor of Professor Winston Napier
1953-2008
On February 27-28, 2009, Clark University will host a conference in honor of Professor Winston Napier. We are writing to you, as previous participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series at Clark, to invite your participation in this conference.
The focus of the conference is to honor Professor Napier’s passion for the contributions of African American intellectual culture to advancing and broadening the study of Blacks in America, to deepening our understanding of race through the lenses of humanities, and to laying a sophisticated and multi-faceted groundwork for social and political action. As the founder of the African Intellectual Culture Series (AAICS) at Clark, Professor Napier set in motion and oversaw a decade-long annual lecture series that drew prominent scholars and artists to Clark.
We seek the participation of former participants in the African American Intellectual Culture Series to form the core for panels at the conference. We envision a conference that reaches to the past and articulates priorities for future study and that encompasses the broad span of intellectual inquiry and creativity that has characterized the AAICS. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr. Karla FC Holloway, who is the James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. Dr. Holloway was an AAICS participant in 1998.
The Saturday session for the conference will include a series of panels on topics related to the conference theme. The topics for the panels are yet very general, but the following list will give you an idea of what we have in mind. We are, however, flexible and will work to arrange panels around themes and topics of interest to those who would like to participate.
1. Opening panel: “The Role of the Intellectual in African American Culture”
2. Literary Theory and African American Studies
3. Explorations of Gender Identity and African American Culture
4. Historical Legacy of Black Arts
5. Bridges to/from African American Studies and other disciplines
We are now in the process of organizing the conference and preparing the schedule of events. It would be helpful to hear from you by October 6 [revised date October 20] if you would like to participate. Please provide a brief statement describing the topic/theme on which you would like to speak. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to write to either of us.
Fern Johnson and Stephen Levin, Department of English, Clark University
fjohnson@clarku.edu slevin@clarku.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Textual Scholarship, Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 18-21, 2009, New York University
Program Co-Chairs: Andrew Stauffer, Boston University [astauff@bu.edu]; John Young, Marshall University [youngj@marshall.edu]
Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2008
The Program Chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library science, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, media studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory. The Program Chairs are particularly interested in papers and panels, as well as workshops and roundtables, on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience:
> Textual production and the social sphere
> Textual cultures
> Digital editing and textuality
> The production and editing of “minority” texts
> Theoretical and practical intersections between textual scholarship and book history
> Textual scholarship and pedagogy
Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers or presentations. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals, including proposals for roundtables and workshops, should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session.
Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested.
Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Andrew Stauffer, email address: astauff@bu.edu
Department of English
Boston University
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
and
Professor John Young, email address: youngj@marshall.edu
Department of English
Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755
(304) 696-2349
(304) 696-2448 (fax)
All participants in the STS 2009 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at mroland@marylhurst.edu or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page:
. For conference updates and information, see the STS website:
.
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in TEXTUAL CULTURES.
Call for Papers: U.S. Latino/a Literary Studies at CEA 2009
70th Anniversary Conference | March 26-28, 2009 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; (412) 281-7100
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on U.S. Latino/a Literary Studies for our 40th annual conference, celebrating the organization’s 70th anniversary.
Suggestions for paper submissions for this special topic in U.S. Latino/a Literary Studies might include the following (among many others):
--teaching U.S. Latino/a literary texts in undergraduate courses;
--the position of U.S. Latino/a literature in the English major curriculum;
--critical theory and U.S. Latino/a literature;
--the U.S. Latino/a literary canon;
--the future of U.S. Latino/a literary studies;
--gender and sexuality in U.S. Latino/a literature;
--social and cultural representations in U.S. Latino/a literature;
--diaspora and immigration in U.S. Latino/a literature;
--identity in U.S. Latino/a literature.
General Conference Theme: Design
In addition, CEA welcomes proposals for presentations on the general conference theme, Design. We live in a world atomized into text messages and jump cuts, socially constructed snippets on networking sites, fragmented blogs and news bites, ones and zeroes. In such a context, is there still a role for conscious design - of literature, of art, of rhetoric, of learning? After the death of the author, who designs the texts we love to see, read, and study? Or do we make our own designations, sketching out the plot, shading in the design, creating meaning as we find it?
General Call for Papers
CEA also welcomes proposals for presentations in any of the areas English departments typically encompass, including literature, creative writing, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film. We also welcome papers on areas that influence our work as academics, including student demographics, student/instructor accountability and assessment, student advising, academic leadership in departments and programs, and the place of the English department in the university.
Submission: August 31-November 1, 2008
For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/conference2009.htm
Membership
All presenters at the 2009 CEA conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2009. To join CEA, please go to http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/membership.htm
More information
--Find out more about the College English Association: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea
--Find out more about lodging and registration: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/conferencetravel2009.htm
--Contact CEA officers: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/officers.htm
Other questions? Please email cea.english@gmail.com.
Maya Angelou reference book
Facts On File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and libraries, is seeking a scholar to write a one-volume reference book on Maya Angelou, focusing on critical analysis of her works. The ideal author will have a Ph.D., broad knowledge of Angelou's life and works, and an ability to write clearly and succinctly for students in both high school and college. This large project (250,000-300,000 words) must be completed within two years. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines will be required. If interested please send letter and cv, preferably by e-mail, to
Illuminates the relationship between storytelling and the Native North American experience
THE TRUTH ABOUT STORIES: A Native Narrative Thomas King University of Minnesota Press | 184 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-4627-2 | paperback | $19.95 Now in paperback.
In his widely read and frequently taught The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling.
"A collection of thought-provoking essays examining the importance of the oral tradition. Storyteller Thomas King addresses Native cultural concerns and their primal link to storytelling. Intriguing and entertaining. Highly recommended for all tribal college collections and literature classes." -Tribal College Journal
"His style is penetrating. King gives his audience the refreshing, insightful blend of oration and inscription. Recommend this book to any student of writing, mythology, or history." -Multicultural Review
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/king_truth.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html
MELUS members - take a moment to learn about a new online journal, Vitalpoetics, which is published in Australia and has free subscriptions as it builds its readership. The journal is particularly interested in cultural studies of literature and just published an article of mine on "Archetypal Violence and the Feminine Heroic in Multicultural American Women's Literature." The address for new subscriptions is http://www.vitalpoetics.com/subscribe
The many meanings "Argentina" holds both within and beyond its borders.
ARGENTINA: Stories for a Nation Amy K. Kaminsky University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-4948-8 | hardcover | $67.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-4949-5 | paperback | $22.50
Amy K. Kaminsky explores Argentina's unique national identity and the place it holds in the minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the country's meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes Argentina's presence in a broad range of literary texts from the United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and Argentina itself, as well as internationally produced films, advertisements, and newspaper features.
"A fascinating analysis of the ways Argentina has figured in the Western imagination, Argentina is also a necessary meditation on national identity, colonialism, and intercultural relations as both dynamic and mutually transformative." -Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College
Amy K. Kaminsky is professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of After Exile (Minnesota, 1999).
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/k/kaminsky_argentina.html
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Book Announcement / New in paperback: COMPLICATING CONSTRUCTIONS Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts Edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker (University of Washington Press, American Ethnic and Cultural Studies, $25 paper)
Now in paperback for course use, this volume of collected essays is an important contribution to contemporary understandings of race and ethnicity, offering truly multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors--from Toni Morrison and James Weldon Johnson to Bret Harte and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton--these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between “ethnic” and “nonethnic” literatures.
"These 14 essays offer genre studies, close readings, and theoretical considerations of race, ethnicity, and American literature. Unlike other recent treatments . . . this one is broad, and therein lies its strength. Recommended." ---Choice
For more information, including the table of contents and how to order, please visit: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/GOLCOC.html
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DEPARTMENT OF CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES College of Letters and Science University of California, Santa Barbara
Announces a Position in: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND HISTORY OF CHICANA/O AND LATINO/A ART ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TENURE-TRACK)
Over the past three decades, the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies has developed an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on history, culture, gender, politics, and institutions. Courses probe the roots of a cultural tradition beginning with the pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico and the Chicano/Latino historical experience, including Latin American immigrant indigenous people in the United States, extending into the many areas of contemporary American society, including politics, education, literature, the arts, immigration, and sexuality. UCSB’s recently established M.A./Ph.D. graduate degree in Chicana/o Studies, the first in the nation, has accepted its fourth cohort, which will be entering in Fall 2008. The graduate program has emerged as an innovative intellectual space from which new junior scholars are making their mark in our field.
POSITION
The Department is conducting a search for a scholar in the 2008-09 academic year to undertake high level research, teaching and mentoring at the graduate and undergraduate level, and participate actively in the department, university, and community. We invite applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the area of Theory, Practice, and History of Chicana/o and Latina/o Art. Specializations may include, but are not limited to Indigenous, Pre-Columbian, Native American, Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o, Queer, and Feminist art. An ability to apply diverse methodologies and a manifest interest in interdisciplinary studies is recommended.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our graduate core courses by teaching Cultural Texts and Interdisciplinary Methods. Our curriculum also welcomes courses such as the History of Chicano/a Art; Chicana/o Public Art; The Body in Chicana and Chicano Art; Queering Mestizaje, and/or Photography and Digital Media in Chicana/o Art. In addition, the successful candidate will be invited to propose a series of art history courses relevant to his/her own fields of specialization and research interests.
APPOINTMENT DATE: Appointment is full-time in Chicana and Chicano Studies effective July 1, 2009.
QUALIFICATIONS
Completion of the Ph.D. by time of appointment is required.
Degree may be in Chicana/o Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies/Civilization, Women’s Studies, or other similar interdisciplinary degree programs. We will also consider doctoral degrees in Art or Art History; however, research specialization must be in Chicano-a/Latino-a art.
If ABD, please provide documentation, in the form of a letter from the Chair of the Doctoral Committee, confirming that the dissertation will be completed in time to be defended and filed by July 1, 2009.
Teaching experience with a strong commitment to teaching and working with both graduate and undergraduate students.
Ability to work with a culturally diverse student population.
CAMPUS PARTNERSHIPS
The Chicana/o Studies Department works closely with several units on campus that enhance and aid in its mission of research, teaching, and service. These units are the Chicano Studies Institute which provides funding for conferences, research and other related activities, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), and the Colección Tloque Nahuaque.
Chicano Studies Institute: http://research.ucsb.edu/ccs/
The Institute undertakes, promotes and disseminates research regarding the Chicano/Latino experience in California and the United States. The Institute’s research activities serve the intellectual interests of Chicana/o Studies students, researchers and faculty from all departments and units on the UCSB campus. Together with the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, the Institute supports research that promotes the growing national and international stature of the field and assists in the recruitment and retention of Chicano/Latino faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at the university. Furthermore, the Institute promotes cultural education for the campus and community by sponsoring events and programs that draw from Chicana/o, Mexican and Latin American music, dance, theatre, film, and art traditions.
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/
ImaginArte: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/project_description.html
The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, also known as CEMA, is a division of the Special Collections Department of the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara. CEMA is a permanent program that advances scholarship in ethnic studies through its varied collections of primary research materials. These unique collections of personal papers, archival materials, and fine art prints document the lives and political and cultural activities of African Americans, Asian/Pacific Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and Native Americans in California. Of special interest to visual arts scholars is CEMA’s exciting new multi-institutional initiative, “Imaginarte: Interpreting and Re-imaging Chican@Art.” This project draws on CEMA's strong collections in Chicana/o visual arts to foment and acquire funding for new research, scholarship, exhibitions and publications on Chicana/o art, in addition to funding artists in residency and public lectures by Chicana/o visual artists.
Colección Tloque Nahuaque
Researchers, faculty, and students engaged in Chicana/o Studies at UCSB benefit from access to the Colección Tloque Nahuaque in the Davidson Library. It is a unique resource for comprehensive Chicana/o and Latina/o information and specialized reference services. Visiting scholars from both this country and abroad consider it to be one of the finest collections of Chicana/o materials anywhere in the world.
RANK AND SALARY
The position is at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience, and qualifications. Merits and promotions are at designated intervals in a faculty member’s career.
The University of California offers a comprehensive benefits package including health (including dental and vision), disability, and life insurance coverage. The University of California Retirement Plan (UCRP) is a defined benefit plan which provides lifetime monthly retirement income as well as survivor and disability benefits after a 5 year vesting period. Most UC employees are covered by UCRP and Social Security. In addition, the University offers several Retirement Savings Plans. For detailed information please refer to the University of California website: http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/forms_pubs/misc/uc_benefits_overview_tenured.pdf
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, samples of published articles and/or portfolio, sample chapter(s) of the dissertation, teaching evaluations, and request that three letters of recommendation be sent directly to:
Prof. María Herrera-Sobek,
Chair of Search Committee,
Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies,
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 – 4120.
The deadline for application submission is October 17, 2008 for primary consideration.
However, the position will remain open until filled. For additional information contact Joann Erving, Business Officer, at (805) 893-8807 or via email at: jerving@chicst.ucsb.edu.
UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
DIRECTOR, PROGRAM IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
The University of California, Irvine, invites applications for theDirector of the Program in African American Studies, to be appointed at the advanced Associate or Full Professor level, beginning July 1, 2009. The successful applicant must have a distinguished record of publication
and teaching in the field of African American Studies broadly defined. Scholars with demonstrated expertise in critical studies of gender and sexuality are especially encouraged to apply.
The Director will join a growing interdisciplinary program that has augmented its core faculty with several recent appointments in art history, comparative political thought, drama, and film and media studies. Our core and affiliated faculty have teaching interests in critical theory, feminist theory, history, legal studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, political economy, visual studies, postcoloniality, and transnational and diaspora studies. The Program has emerged as a campus center for inter-disciplinary teaching and research. Its courses are cross-listed on a regular basis. The Program has planned and staged, in recent years, several innovative national conferences: "Black Thought in the Age of Terror," "Dred Scott: Citizenship, The Human, and the Political A/Effect of Racial Blackness," "The Paradoxes of Race, Law, and Inequality in the United States," and "Extended Provocations: New Lectures in Dialogue with the Pioneering Scholarship of Judith Wilson." Housed within the distinguished School of Humanities, the Program in African American Studies has also contributed to the academic prominence of UC Irvine more generally. It has enjoyed steady increases in undergraduate enrollments and significant gains in the number of majors and minors.
As the principal academic administrator, the duties of the Program Director include coordinating faculty recruitments; overseeing academic personnel reviews; preparing annual budgets; facilitating communication among Program faculty, academic units, and university administration; implementing policy and curriculum; and supervising office personnel. On a campus with a tradition of shared governance, the Director and the faculty collectively advance the mission of the Program through the African American Studies Steering Committee. Appointment of the successful applicant will be made fully in the Program in African American Studies or, where opportunities arise, jointly with other academic units.
Review of applications will begin *December 1, 2008*, and the position will remain open until filled.
Please submit a statement of teaching and research interests, administrative experience, curriculum vitae, portfolio of recent publications, and names of three references to: Chair, Search Committee, Program in African American Studies, University of California-Irvine, 1300 Biological Sciences III, Irvine, CA 92697-6850.
The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and has an Advance Program for faculty equity and diversity.
Assistant Professor of American Studies
The Department of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, to begin September 2009. We are interested in candidates who can teach interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses in early 20th century cultural history and literature, with strength in gender and sexuality studies. Teaching, advising, and mentoring experience in urban public institutions with diverse student bodies is desirable. PhD in American Studies, Humanities, or equivalent interdisciplinary training, must be in hand by May 2009. Candidates should send a description of research and teaching interests, curriculum vita, sample publications/chapters, and three letters of recommendation to:
Office of Human Resources
Search 11116
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Review of applications will begin January 20, 2009, and will continue until the position is filled. For inquiries contact: Professor Lois Rudnick, Chair, Search Committee, lois.rudnick@umb.edu
The University of Massachusetts Boston is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Title IX employer. www.umb.edu
Job Ad: The Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in the field of post-World War II/Contemporary American Literature and Culture. Minimum qualifications: ABD or PhD in English or equivalent field; dissertation focus on American literature and culture since 1945; evidence of commitment to scholarly research and publication. Secondary expertise in literary and cultural theory is
desired, including but not limited to: gender studies, queer theory, transnational
literatures, postmodern fiction/narrative, or digital literature and culture. A record of peer-reviewed scholarly publication strengthens the application.
Applications must be made electronically through the UWM web site at:
www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50766 . Submissions received by
Nov. 15 will be given preference. Interviews will be held at the MLA convention.
Search Committee Chair: Prof. Gregory Jay. UWM is an AA/EEO Employer.
Assistant Professor of Ethnic and/or Immigrant Literatures of the United States
The English Department at Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Ethnic and/or Immigrant Literatures of the United States; particular emphasis in Latino/a American, Native American, African American, and/or Asian American literatures (preferences given in order above). Teaching includes introductory and advanced literature courses for the major and general education; the teaching load is six courses per year. Ph.D. preferred; ABD considered. In order to enhance our studentsʼ educational experiences, we encourage applicants who have academic experiences and interests in culturally diverse groups.
Please send letter of application, CV, transcript, and letters of reference to: Dr. Laura Behling, Chair, Department of English, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN 56082. All applications will be acknowledged. Review of applications will begin November 7, 2008.
Gustavus Adolphus College is a coeducational, private, residential, national liberal arts college of 2,500 students, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is the policy and practice of Gustavus Adolphus College to provide equal educational and employment opportunities for all. We specifically encourage applications from women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
American and British Modernism
The Department of English at Florida Atlantic University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in American and British Modernism, beginning August 2009. Specialization in both American and British Modernism is most desirable. This position will be located on FAU’s Jupiter campus, with a graduate teaching assignment on the Boca Raton campus. Situated in subtropical South Florida, FAU serves a culturally and ethnically diverse six-county region (Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie) with a population of more than five million people. The teaching assignment is five courses per year. The Department of English at FAU includes 29 diverse tenure-line faculty, who are collegial, productive, and innovative. This department is seeking a successful candidate who will contribute to its growing MFA, MA, MAT, and BA programs and who may participate in a variety of interdisciplinary PhD programs. Requirements include a PhD at time of appointment, publication record in field, and relevant teaching experience at the college level. Send letter, vita, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Wenying Xu, Chair, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL, 33431-0991. Applications must be postmarked by November 7, 2008. FAU is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution that actively encourages applications from women and minorities in keeping with its policy of promoting diversity throughout the institution.
Creative Nonfiction
The Department of English at Florida Atlantic University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Creative Nonfiction, beginning August 2009. Expertise in secondary genre is desirable. This position will be located on two of FAU’s campuses: Boca Raton and Davie. Situated in subtropical South Florida, FAU serves a culturally and ethnically diverse six-county region (Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie) with a population of more than five million people. The teaching assignment is five courses per year. This position provides the opportunity to teach workshops at graduate and undergraduate levels and to advise the students’ literary magazine, Coastlines. The Department of English at FAU includes 29 diverse tenure-line faculty, who are collegial, productive, and innovative. This department is seeking a successful candidate who will contribute to its growing MFA, MA, BA programs, and the college’s interdisciplinary PhD program. Requirements include a MFA or PhD at time of appointment, publication record in field, and relevant teaching experience at the college level. Send letter, vita, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Wenying Xu, Chair, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL, 33431-0991. Applications must be postmarked by November 7, 2008. FAU is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution that actively encourages applications from women and minorities in keeping with its policy of promoting diversity throughout the institution.
The English Department at Trinity College seeks to hire an actively publishing poet to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Poetry Writing and Literary Studies. Applicants for this position should have demonstrated ability to teach introductory multiple-genre creative writing courses, advanced workshops in poetry writing, and courses in literary analysis (field of expertise open).” Ph.D. or M.F.A., publications, and teaching experience required. We particularly welcome applications from affirmative action and minority candidates. Please send a letter of application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample or short portfolio no later than 1 November to Paul Lauter, chair, Department of English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Trinity College is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer.
The English Department at Trinity College seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Film Studies. Applicants for this position should have demonstrated ability to teach introductory and advanced courses in Film Studies and another literary specialty. Ph.D., or its equivalent, publications, and teaching experience required. We particularly welcome applications from affirmative action and minority candidates. Please send a letter of application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, a syllabus for an undergraduate film studies course you might wish to teach, and a writing sample, no later than 1 November to Paul Lauter, chair, Department of English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Trinity College is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer.
The English Department at Trinity College seeks to hire at the assistant professor level a three-year replacement. The successful candidate for this position should have experience teaching courses in British romanticism, literary theory or Colonial-period American literatures. Applicants for this position should also have demonstrated experience in teaching introductory literature courses. Ph.D. and record of publication required. We particularly welcome applications from affirmative action and minority candidates. Please send a letter of application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, a syllabus for an undergraduate course you might wish to teach, and a writing sample, no later than 1 November to Paul Lauter, chair, Department of English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106. Trinity College is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity employer.
Northern Arizona University¹s English Department and Ethnic Studies Program
invites applications for a tenure-eligible assistant professor position in
African American literature and African American Studies and/or African
Diasporic Studies. A successful candidate will be expected to teach a
yearly 3/2 load that includes courses such as Introduction to African
American Literature, Introduction to African American Studies, as well as
advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise.
Minimum qualifications include a PhD in English, African American Studies,
or a related field, completed by August 17, 2009; demonstrated expertise in
African American literature and culture; and evidence of scholarly
publications. Preference will be given to those candidates who demonstrate
a record of effective college/university teaching for at least two years, a
record of scholarly activity within the fields of African American
Literature and African American Studies and/or African Diasporic Studies,
and experience in working with a diverse community of learners.
Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a writing
sample (publication or other as appropriate), and evidence of effective
teaching (such as, but not limited to, sample syllabi, a 1-2 page statement
of teaching philosophy, etc.). Please also have three confidential letters
of reference addressing the applicant's qualifications sent to the search
committee. Please mail completed applications to: Professor Jeff Berglund
and Professor Michelle Harris, Co-Chairs, African American literature and
African American Studies Search Committee, Department of English, Northern
Arizona University, P.O. Box 6032, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Please check the
following website for more information on the position (scroll down to
vacancy # 557772) : http://hr.nau.edu/m/content/view/796/549/
Northern Arizona University is a committed Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Institution. Women, minorities, veterans and individuals with
disabilities are encouraged to apply. NAU is responsive to the needs of dual
career couples.
Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Required: PhD in English, Comparative Literature, Ethnic Studies or
a related discipline; college-level teaching experience; a record of
student mentoring and of ongoing research and publications in the
field appropriate to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Teaching load is 2/2 with significant research agenda; opportunities
for teaching are at undergraduate, MA, and PhD levels.
Desired: Transnational, Hemispheric, or Global Research Perspective.
Applicants must send: letter of application, CV, writing sample(s)
of published work, and contact information of three professional
references to Chair, Comparative Ethnic Studies Search Committee,
Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
85287-0302. Application deadline (no faxes or emails please):
Postmarked by October 24, 2008, if not filled, then every Monday
thereafter until the search is closed. All applications
acknowledged. A background check is required for employment.
AA/EOE.
Tenure-Track Position in Ethnic American Literature
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania enrolls approximately 10,000 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. The University is located in the borough of Kutztown in a charming rural setting, and is within 20 minutes driving time of the diverse metropolitan areas Allentown/Bethlehem and Reading, and within 60 minutes of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The University is very interested in hiring employees who have had extensive experience with diverse populations.
The English Department of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Ethnic American Literature to begin August 2009. Specializations can include but are not limited to African American Literature, Native American Literature, Asian American Literature, and Latino/a American Literature. Ph.D. preferred; ABD considered with completion of Ph.D. before the start of the second year.
A strong applicant will be an effective teacher, a scholar with a committed research agenda, and a colleague ready to participate in department and university service. The 4/4 teaching load will include literature and composition, with opportunities to develop and teach upper-division classes and occasional graduate courses. Three years of college-level teaching experience required. Successful interview and demonstration of teaching abilities required.
Send a letter of application, vita, three current letters of reference, and all official college-level transcripts to: Joanne Emge, Ethnic American Literature Faculty Search Committee, 241 Lytle Hall, English Department, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530. Only complete application packets will be considered. Review of applications will begin November 7, 2008, for MLA interviews and will continue until the position is filled. For more information on our programs, visit our website at www.kutztown.edu/acad/english.
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and actively solicits applications from women and minority candidates. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is a member of the State System of Higher Education.
